Celery Vase

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Object Name: 
Celery Vase
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
50.4.266
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.5 cm; Rim Diam: 13 cm; Foot Diam: 10.25 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1820-1840
Primary Description: 
Celery Vase. Light lead glass, colorless; free-blown and cut; deep body with straight sides spreading to slightly flaring rim, applied ball-knop stem, and flat circular foot with smooth base; cut decoration on bowl: at bottom, band of flat splits below band of plain Gothic arches between conventionalized palms on pedestals of five diamonds; band of facets (three rows) above and about 3/4" (1.9 cm) below notched rim.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1925
to
1950-07-31
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
cutting
glassblowing
applied
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (5)

Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 41, 2nd from left, p. 210; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 180, fig. 41; BIB# 71763
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) illustrated, #3, pl. 50; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) illustrated, #3, pl. 50; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) illustrated, #3, pl. 50; BIB# 76944